{"id":211510,"date":"2025-10-27T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-biya-re-elected-despite-deadly-protests-and-claims-of-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:27:05","slug":"cameroons-biya-re-elected-despite-deadly-protests-and-claims-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-biya-re-elected-despite-deadly-protests-and-claims-of-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Biya Re-Elected Despite Deadly Protests and Claims of Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em> President Paul Biya has won an eighth term in Cameroon, keeping the 92-year-old leader in power until he is almost 100, according to results announced on Monday by the Constitutional Council. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Hereby proclaimed President-elect: the candidate Biya Paul,&#8221; Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council, said during the announcement in the capital Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The results were delivered region by region. Ambassadors from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> did not attend the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Biya has ruled&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270673.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Biya has won an eighth term in Cameroon, keeping the 92-year-old leader in power until he is almost 100, according to results announced on Monday by the Constitutional Council. &#8220;Hereby proclaimed President-elect: the candidate Biya Paul,&#8221; Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council, said during the announcement in the capital Yaound\u00e9. The results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671619:6847846c8296e5bb53b90583fe89e357:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7862,377,4331,8117,9555,8666,257,5253,16934,254],"class_list":["post-211510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-claims","tag-deadly","tag-fraud","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-reelected","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671619:6847846c8296e5bb53b90583fe89e357:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}